<p>Glenn</a> Beck - Commentary: T-shirt depicts 'pathetic and brutal legacy'</p>
<p>Just food for thought. My opinion on this main dish?</p>
<p>Commies aren't cool.</p>
<p>And another question for all posters? Why do so many hipster teens wear his likeness? I mean, do they know what this guy did? </p>
<p>I don't see anyone wearing Fidel Castro, Osama Bin Laden, Benito Mussolini, Vlad Lenin or Adolf Hitler as the image on their chest to school on any given morning. And they were successful revolutionaries.</p>
<p>Probably cause they were also fugly. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I remember seeing a picture of an Obama office with a Cuban flag with a Che Guevara picture on it.</p>
<p>Obama</a> Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’</p>
<p>The people supporting Obama are a little sketchy.</p>
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Why do so many hipster teens wear his likeness? I mean, do they know what this guy did?
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<p>No, they don't know what that guy did. It's because he was a "revolutionary." People think they're being rebels by sporting his image, which has come to be portrayed as a counter-cultural symbol. </p>
<p>For the most part, Che's more brutal antics aren't known. You have to do a bit of research yourself before getting through the thick layers of his romanticized image as a hero. Nobody really knows that he strongly supported Communist North Vietnam, or about his murderous personality.</p>
<p>I know this cause I did a report on him =X</p>
<p>I still wouldn't use that article as a source in anything. It's clearly politically biased, as well as sounding like something written by Ann Coulter.</p>
<p>I wear it because he represents something that stands in the face of capitalism, consumerism and corporate greed. Che isn't the most humanitarian individual who walked the earth, but he made a significant contribution by overthrowing governments that were brutal towards their people. I don't think that we should categorize Che as a god, but he wasn't Satan's incarnate. I liked his ideals early on in life, but I might not stand exactly for his methods of achieving those ideals. I think we look at Communism and Russia as a bane, even 20 years after it has been dealt with just because we've been taught to think no other way. Communism in itself is better than capitalism (in theory). It's just that we don't have a practical application or real world example to help dictate that. When Beck mentions Mao, he fails to mention the fact that we actually supported him before he went on his meteoric rise to the top. It's not that we hate Communism, it's just that we can't make a real decision on when or when not to support it. We support dictators who have massacred thousands just because we need things from them, but we really frown upon anybody who just stands under a red flag. America has a tendency to back the winning horse and not take a firm stand on a lot of issues - rather, take issues based on economic interest. I'm not plugging Communism here, because frankly, I'm not a Communist. But honestly, our perspective of the world based on political standing really needs to be revamped.</p>
<p>I look up to Mao as a hero sometimes, I can understand how people look up to Che.</p>
<p>w00t 1337 posts</p>
<p>lol @ people who hate capitalism</p>
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I wear it because he represents something that stands in the face of capitalism, consumerism and corporate greed.
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<p>Very well, but by wearing his likeness on your T-shirt you are endorsing capitalism, consumerism, and corporate greed. Let's be honest here: Who is mass-producing Che's image? Capitalist corporations. </p>
<p>It's all so very ironic. If you actually admire Che's ideals, why contradict them by purchasing a Western-made T-shirt when the profit goes to the corporations Che hated?</p>
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<p>Trust me, if Ann Coulter wrote this, I would not be making a post on it, .no matter how accurate Then again, Ann Coulter wouldn't be writing commentary articles for CNN (or any news network not named Fox News) in this or many other alternate universes. Now, back to the point.</p>
<p>The article does carry a bias against liberalism, socialism and communism, but there is no doubt that Che was a ruthless executioner of his political opponents, and a poor revolutionary. He also was a coward when faced with death, if you must know.</p>
<p>Ehhh, who cares if his dreamy stare looks good on someone's chest.</p>
<p>It's hard to take any comments seriously from people who are still blinded by that 'communism is the devil' idea. </p>
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He also was a coward when faced with death, if you must know.
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<p>Like, omg!?! He fled when he was faced with death!?! Coward!</p>
<p>More like the T-shirt icons of people who don't even know who Che Guevara was.</p>
<p>And he was totally a terrorist.</p>
<p>(ealgian)^at lease che was badass enough to hold off the bolivian army with 50 men</p>
<p>also...hot girl :b (Haydée</a> Tamara Bunke Bider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)</p>
<p>George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were all terrorists too according to your definition. They were rebels as well. I think you fail to realize how you still see Communism through a veil of "evil." I know who Che was. I don't say that I'm a communist. I just don't appreciate a world in which the power is held in the hands of businessmen.</p>
<p>Oh btw, you also have to realize that Che wasn't "pathetic." He was murdered by a government that supported the King of Saudi Arabia that supported mass genocide on their people, but couldn't stand a man who put a lot on the line for something he believed in.</p>
<p>One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.</p>
<p>I'm sick of Che Guevara. Tons of people I know are like "Oh he's my idol..." and when asked what he actually DID, they respond like "oh... he's just so great.. you know.. greatness, can't explain it." COME ON!</p>
<p>EDIT: Now wait, let me clarify.. I'm not sick of Che Guevara HIMSELF. It's the over-produced image of him that includes no knowledge of his actions, stuff like that. I personally don't consider him a terrorist either..</p>
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Very well, but by wearing his likeness on your T-shirt you are endorsing capitalism, consumerism, and corporate greed. Let's be honest here: Who is mass-producing Che's image? Capitalist corporations.
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What if they drew his face on a T-shirt?</p>
<p>I mostly agree with Glen, the writer of the article, but he's being selective with his criticism. He's basically saying how this guy with supposedly good intentions committed awful crimes implying that the ends do not justify the means. However he fails to apply the same sort of logic with the current administration since he seems to support what Bush is doing in his efforts to stop terrorists. The same could be said to any of you guys though. If you guys are critical of Bush for wiretapping, support of torture, and his dropping of habeus corpus for "terrorists", I don't see how you can turn around and praise Che because he committed atrocities in order to "better the world."</p>
<p>I really don't think it's fair to compare Che Guevara and George W. Bush.</p>
<p>The federal government always had the ability to wiretap your ass, ever since phones became popular, and they are still going to do it. It's always been torturing people, only this time the guys screwed up and whoever controlled the media decide to report on these things.</p>
<p>I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but what do you expect from the same government that took over Native American and Mexican land and sent the Japanese to internment camps?</p>